Translation

Theotokos, help your servant Leontios imperial spatharokandidatos and ek prosopou of the Kibyrraiotai.

Commentary

We know two more ek prosopou of the Kibyrraiotai, John (early ninth century) and Eustathios (early tenth); both were governors of the province and were considered strategoi without bearing the title: they were a kind of acting strategoi. Cf. the Life of St. Antonios the Younger in Papadopoulos-Kerameus I, 194-200, 202; De Adm. Imp., chap. 50, line 174 ff.